Onyeama
disclosed this after a meeting with Maersk Chief Executive Officer, Soren Skou, on the sideline of the
African-Nordic Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Maersk,
a key player in the shipping sector, has been engaged in Nigeria, with shipping
activities in Lagos and Onne ports.
Onyeama
further said Maersk is one of the main shippers into Nigeria and were
interested in getting more involved in inland port, including refrigeration of
warehousing of goods.
“One of the challenges that we face in the country, especially in
the agricultural area, is moving agricultural products. A very large percentage of our agricultural products don’t make it to the
market because the cultivation of them is a real challenge. So, they have the
experience and the wherewithal and ready to invest in that side of their
business.
“For us, that will be a real game changer since we are now
diversifying much more into agriculture and looking to export more agricultural
products, to have this facility of being able to preserve agricultural products
and move them to market is very important,” Onyeama
said.
Speaking
earlier, Skou said the meeting with Onyeama was constructive in discussing many
of the company’s activities in Nigeria.
“We are big part of the trade infrastructure in Nigeria. We operate
two ports in Nigeria, in Onne and in Lagos and we provide container services to
and from the world to Nigeria. So, we discussed development opportunities, new
investments and we also discussed few changes,” Skou said.
Skou
further said Maersk had been on the shipping and port side, but is very much
interested in going further to inland in order to extend its reach.
“We want to extend our reach. We have been on shipping side and port
side, we have to go further inland to invest in dry port, inland logistics
services in Nigeria,” Skou
added. (Sun)
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